8 April 2025 |
- Introduction and expectations
- Setup in R
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15 April 2025 |
- Foundations of data science
- Foundations of comparative politics
- The tidyverse in R
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Lazer, D., & Radford, J. (2017). Data ex Machina: Introduction to Big Data. Annual Review of Sociology, 43(1), 19–39. |
22 April 2025 |
- Democracy and autocracy
- Data sources in comparative politics
- Data wrangling in R: joining, grouping and reshaping data
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Coppedge, M., Gerring, J., Knutsen, C. H., Lindberg, S. I., Teorell, J., Altman, D., Angiolillo, F., Bernhard, M., Borella, C., & Cornell, A. (2024). V-Dem Codebook v14.
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29 April 2025 |
- Party competition and ideology in Europe
- Party manifestos and legislative speech
- Data visualization in R
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Kriesi, H., & Hutter, S. (2019). Crises and the transformation of the national political space in Europe. In H. Kriesi & S. Hutter (Eds.), European party politics in times of crisis (pp. 3–32). Cambridge University Press.
Sebők, M., Proksch, S.-O., Rauh, C., Visnovitz, P., Balázs, G., & Schwalbach, J. (2023). Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article. International Political Science Review. |
6 May 2025 |
- The Internet and democracy
- Regression analysis and presentation of results in R
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Keremoğlu, E., & Weidmann, N. B. (2020). How dictators control the internet: A review essay. Comparative Political Studies, 53(10–11), 1690–1703.
Tucker, J. A., Theocharis, Y., Roberts, M. E., & Barberá, P. (2017). From liberation to turmoil: Social media and democracy. Journal of Democracy, 28(4), 46–59. |
13 May 2025 |
- Social media in comparative politics
- Text as data in R
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Barberá, P., Gohdes, A. R., Iakhnis, E., & Zeitzoff, T. (2024). Distract and Divert: How World Leaders Use Social Media During Contentious Politics. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 29(1), 47–73.
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